🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Meenakshi Amman Temple
Early Pandya origins 6th c., current Nayak 1623–1655 CE · Hindu (Shavite-Shakti) under Nayak kingdom of Madurai
Sprawling Nayak temple-city with 14 colourful gopurams and musical stone pillars.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph
Jibal al-Khashabiya Desert Kites & Shrine Complex (SE Jordan Desert)
PPNB to Late Neolithic (Ghassanian) · Southeastern Badia foragers
Eight kites with engraved kite petroglyph pillar and twin shrines on chert pavement southeast of Amman.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Archaeological wonder
Al-Jizah, Jordan
Al-Jizah (also spelled Jize), historically known as Ziza or Zizia, is a town in northwestern Jordan. It is the 22nd district of the Amman Governorate.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Archaeological wonder
Jalul
Jalul is an archaeological site and small village in the Amman Governorate in northwestern Jordan.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Archaeological wonder
Khirbet Yajouz
4th century
Khirbet Yajouz (or Khirbet Mudraj) is an archaeological site in Shafa Badran area, located 11 km northeast of Amman, Jordan. An ancient Roman city was built on the site around the 4th century CE.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient city
Umm ar-Rasas (Kastron Mefaa)
Roman to Umayyad (3rd–8th c CE; Byzantine peak 5th–8th c) · Roman / Byzantine / Ghassanid / Umayyad
Desert frontier city on Via Nova Traiana, Umm ar-Rasas contains Roman castrum, five Byzantine churches with superb mosaic floors, and the intact 14×6 m mosaic map in St Stephen's Church (718 CE) –…
🇯🇴 Jordan · Archaeological wonder
Wadi Al-Ghadf Kites (Azraq South Ghadf Depression)
Late Neolithic to Chalcolithic · Azraq depression hunters
Wadi al-Ghadf depression: 4 single-arm kites using 8-m natural caliche bluff as wall.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph
Qasr Azraq North Kite Field (Azraq Oasis Northern Fringe)
PPNB to Pottery Neolithic (wetland phase) · Azraq wetland foragers
Oasis-edge kite group on the Azraq mudflat–hamada beach ridge: 12 low-angle V-traps for wetland fauna.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Archaeological wonder
Al-Karak
Al-Karak (Arabic: الكرك), in English sources often simply Karak, is a city in Jordan known for its medieval Kerak Castle, which is one of the three largest in the region, the other two being in Syria.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Archaeological wonder
Madaba
Madaba (Arabic: مادبا, romanized: Mādaba or Arabic: مأدبا, romanized: Maʾdaba) is the capital city of Madaba Governorate in central Jordan, with a population of about 60,000.